[fpc-pascal] Currency and ABS(-674.59)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 06 Mar 2012, at 14:13, Ludo Brands wrote:

> There is also a lot of code in the rtl and fcl-db that supposes  
> currency =
> double. Fe.
>
> Function CurrToStr(Value: Currency; Const FormatSettings:  
> TFormatSettings):
> string;
> begin
>  Result:=FloatToStrF(Value,ffGeneral,-1,0,FormatSettings);
> end;

FloatToStrF() is overloaded for currency. It's normal that currency<- 
 >string conversions are overloaded, since it's a separate type with  
separate formatting rules/restrictions. That is unrelated to the  
internal representation.


Jonas
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